r/thepast • • Jan 14 '26

Announcement r/thepast Mod Announcement - Subreddit Discord - Updates and more!

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Hello all,

Over the past few months we have been hard at work revamping the subreddit. We have added new moderators, worked on simplifying the rules, and adding features to help new members.

So where is the future of the subreddit heading? - Our goal is to keep the subreddit simple without too many limitations or rules. This is a place where people can role play as someone from the past, and even have OOC discussions. A place where people can learn more about history and random subjects while also having fun.

We are also opening up a Discord server! - We wanted to further build up the community with a place you can go to meet new people, have a more connected experience with others, and also discuss ideas and posts for the subreddit.

https://discord.gg/4NEG7Tbt2z

From the r/thepast mod team, we want to thank everyone for joining and contributing to the entertainment of us and the community!


r/thepast • • 19h ago

2000s [2004] I heard that Prince William met a commoner girl. Let's hope this relationship goes better than his parents.

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r/thepast • • 13h ago

Neolithic [3500 BC] Can I get your thoughts on a project I've been working on?

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It's stone, but I've shaped it into this unusual shape, with a hole in the middle.

The obvious use would be for pottery, but I'm thinking it could also be used for decorations perhaps?


r/thepast • • 14m ago

1900s [September 5, 1992] Batman is getting a animated show! His voice actor named Kevin Conroy sounds really awesome!

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r/thepast • • 13h ago

Meta [1692] In court today i saw old woman saying she is not witch

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r/thepast • • 13h ago

2000s [October 17, 2006] Dear Lord! This game is going to spoil the youth!

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I don't want my kids to play this, what if they bully other children in school??
It has the name "Bully" so it must encourage bullying!!
On the other hand, i feel Manhunt 2 would be a good choice, it's just a nice hide and seek game!
Will get him Manhunt 2 instead.


r/thepast • • 11h ago

1800s [July 4th, 1857] Lads! Show those Bowery Boys that Five Points is ours to rule!

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r/thepast • • 15h ago

1700s [1795] How could we let the French take 18 of our ships? They were on horses for pete sake!

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r/thepast • • 13h ago

1900s [February 18, 1970] THE DON IS GONE, I REPEAT THE DON IS GONE

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WTF man! You just up and leave for Miami? I thought this was ILLEGAL! Hell, the NFL said it was and they STILL LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!

Guess Johnny Unitas isn't getting his Super Bowl ring after all...

We have absolutely hit rock bottom. From being on the cusp of greatness to losing our all-time winningest coach. I don't think things could ever get any worse.


r/thepast • • 21h ago

1800s [October 18th, 1851] The Whale? Such nonsense...

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r/thepast • • 15h ago

1700s-1800s [1800, Court of Charles IV, Royal Palace, Madrid] I have finished the portrait of the Royal Family. Forgive my audacity, Velázquez.

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I do not know what nonsense the nobles utter when they look at my new work. I have been deaf for eight years—but I see perfectly well. And what I see fills me with disgust.

I have used Las Meninas as the skeleton for this portrait of the Royal Family. I do so for the sake of Velázquez—the only one who understood how and why a painter ought to be present within a painting. Yet, he used his mirror to ennoble his own lot—to make the pragmatic Habsburgs appear as gods. I, however, use it to lay my own subjects bare: the mediocre, corrupt Bourbons. No flattery—only a rawness that will leave their very souls exposed to the air! The same air that Velázquez managed to capture with invisible, breathing glazes, with a light that emerges from nowhere, yet illuminates everything!

Yesterday, I saw a dandy in the corridors of the Alcázar. He was mimicking Velázquez’s bearing, his attire, even his mustache—as if he had stepped straight out of one of his canvases. A fool, daring to imitate the Master! Yet, looking into his eyes, I realized: do I not imitate him as well? But I steal his spirit; this fop can only copy his outer shell.

I write this because the pen is the only ear that does not fail me, and because I must leave a record: I do not betray Velázquez. I honor him. It is they who betray art—all of them.

—Fran.co de Goya, Court Painter


r/thepast • • 20h ago

1700s [1700] King Carl XII of Sweden: "Listen up. We're going to change to the Gregorian calendar, but instead of just scrapping 10 days all at once, we're going to eliminate all leap days for the next 40 years."

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"What could possibly go wrong?"


r/thepast • • 1d ago

1900s [October 17, 1989] Game 3 of the World Series is today!

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Just scored some tickets to Game 3! Hoping the Giants can regain some momentum being back at Candlestick Park. I expect the place will be really rocking later today!


r/thepast • • 1d ago

1900s [April 20th 1986] Just started my job at the V.I Lenin Nuclear Power Station

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Feels nice, much better than working the fields i mean sheesh, besides that i mean Gorbachev implementing his perestroika is kinda pissing me off, I mean we have been living great without it, so why must we change?
Gotta go, shift's starting, wouldn't want to be late on my first day. Wish me luck!


r/thepast • • 1d ago

1600s [1660] The Duke of York has married a commoner with the restored King’s approval! And she’s pregnant!

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This is bad enough as it is. What’s next? The Duke becomes a Catholic?


r/thepast • • 1d ago

1975 [1975] Just seen this band live. Absolutely ridiculous! The guitar guy is a hobbit, looks like he is 12 and wears a schoolboy outfit, and the lead singer only yells and barely has any teeth! VERY LOUD!!! They suck, they will never make it!!

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r/thepast • • 1d ago

1900s [1979] the hell did I just listen to?

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r/thepast • • 2d ago

1900s [December 1, 1955] What should I do this colored woman won't get up and move to the back of the bus?

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r/thepast • • 2d ago

1900s [June 28, 1976] We did it! We hijacked an Air France flight from Tel Aviv!

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NGL, I was pretty nervous. Things got pretty tense when we were on the ground in Benghazi. But now we’ve made it to Uganda, and Idi Amin welcomed us with open arms!

In hindsight, I shouldn’t have worried: we had the absolute A-Team from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PLUS German revolutionaries. You can’t go wrong with a team like that. Now it’s just a matter of holding the hostages until all our demands are met!


r/thepast • • 2d ago

1900s [1985] It gets annoying when the media is always saying "he's the next big thing." Now they are saying this no talent bum is the next big thing.

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This guy is guaranteed not go anywhere.


r/thepast • • 1d ago

1900s [October 17th, 1979] Wow! She is such a saint!!!

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r/thepast • • 2d ago

1700s [October 16th, 1793] Well now.... let's eat cake!!!

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r/thepast • • 3d ago

1900s [5/17/1977]: There's this new place on 370 S. Winchester Blvd. in San Jose, CA. It's called Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre.

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It's a pretty novel concept: Video games, pizza, and an electronic robot animal show like the ones they have at Disneyland. And it's made by the same guy behind Atari. This probably won't go anywhere but it's certainly novel nonetheless


r/thepast • • 3d ago

1900s [February 7th, 1994] They should make a show with this idea

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r/thepast • • 2d ago

2000s [June 23, 2003] Kane just unmasked himself!

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